A prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternate in most of the tenses); to give (used in a very wide application, properly or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection): - adventure, bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver (up), give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the hand), strike (+ with the palm of the hand), suffer, take, utter, yield.

Mounce's Definition

I giveto give; that this can have many different specific meanings and referents depending on the context, as noted in the list of NIV translations

6.δίδωμι is joined with nouns denoting an act or an effeet; and a. the act or effect of him who gives, in such a sense that what he is said διδόναι (either absolutely or with the dative of person) he is conceived of as effecting, or as becoming its author. Hence, δίδωμι joined with a noun can often be changed into an active verb expressing the effecting of that which the noun denotes. Thus, διδόναιαἶνοντῷΘεῷ is equivalent to αἰνεῖντόνΘεόν, Luke 18:43; ἀπόκρισιντίνι equivalent to ἀποκρίνεσθαι, John 1:22; John 19:9; ἐγκοπήνδοῦναιτῷεὐαγγελίῳ equivalent to ἐνκόπτειντόεὐαγγέλιον, to hinder (the progress of) the gospel, 1 Corinthians 9:12; ἐντολήντίνι equivalent to ἐντέλλεσθαιτίνιJohn 11:57; John 12:49; John 13:34; 1 John 3:23; δόξαντίνι equivalent to δοξάζειντίνι (see δόξα, II.); ἐργασίαν, after the Latin operam dare, take pains, ( A. V. give diligence), equivalent to ἐργάζεσθαι, Luke 12:58 (συμβούλιον, cf. the Latin consilium dare, equivalent to συμβουλεύεσθαι, Mark 3:6 Tr text WH text); διαστολήντίνι i. q διαστέλλειντί, 1 Corinthians 14:7; παραγγελίαν, 1 Thessalonians 4:2παράκλησιν, 2 Thessalonians 2:16; ἔλεος equivalent to ἐληιν, 2 Timothy 1:16,18ἀγάπην, show ( A. V. bestow), 1 John 3:1; ἐκδίκησιν2 Thessalonians 1:8; βασανισμόν, Revelation 18:7; ῤάπισμα equivalent to ῥαπίζειντινα, John 18:22; John 19:3; φίλημα equivalent to φιλεῖντινα, Luke 7:45. or b. the noun denotes something to be done by him to whom it is said to be given: διδόναιτίνιμετάνοιαν, to cause him to repent, Acts 5:31; Acts 11:18; γνῶσινσωτηρίας, Luke 1:77; ἐλπίδατίνι, 2 Thessalonians 2:16.

a. where the noun refers to the office one bears, to appoint: κριτάς, Acts 13:20.

b. to cause to come forth: δίδωμιἐκτῆςσυναγωγῆςτοῦΣατανᾶτῶνλεγόντων (namely, τινας (cf. Buttmann, 158 (138); Winer's Grammar, § 59,4b.)), Revelation 3:9; so also the sea, death, Hades, are said to give (up) the dead who have been engulfed or received by them, Revelation 20:13.

3.δίδωμιτινατίνι;

a. to give one to some one as his own: as the object of his saving care, Hebrews 2:13; to give one to someone, to follow him as a leader and master, John 6:37,39; John 10:29; John 17:6,9, 12 (but see B. I:4.

c. aa. above), John 17:24>; John 18:9>; in these passages God is said to have given certain men to Christ, i. e. to have disposed them to acknowledge Christ as the author and medium of their salvation, and to enter into intimate relations with him, hence Christ calls them 'his own' (τάἐμά, John 10:14).

b. to give one to some one to care for his interests: John 3:16 (ἔδωκεν namely, αὐτῷ, i. e. τῷκόσμῳ); Acts 13:21.

c. to give one to some one to whom he already belonged, to return: Luke 7:15 (Luke 9:42> ἀπεδωκε (so L marginal reading in Luke 7:15)).

d.δίδωμιἐμαυτόντίνι, to one demanding of me something, I give myself up as it were; an hyperbole for disregarding entirely my private interests, I give as much as ever I can: 2 Corinthians 8:5.

4.δίδωμιτινα with a predicate accusative: ἑαυτόντύπον, to render or set forth oneself as an example, 2 Thessalonians 3:9; with a predicate of dignity, office, function, and a dative of the person added for whose benefit some one invested with said dignity or office is given, that Isaiah , is bestowed: αὐτόνἔδωκενκεφαλήνὑπέρπάντατῇἐκκλησία, head over all things to the church, Ephesians 1:22; ἔδωκεντούςμένἀποστόλουςκτλ., namely, τῇἐκκλησία, Ephesians 4:11. For in neither of these passages are we obliged, with many interpreters, to translate the word appointed, made, after the use of the Hebrew נָתַן; especially since in the second Paul seems wish to confirm the words quoted in Ephesians 4:8, ἔδωκεδόματατοῖςἀνθρώποις. Those in the church whom Christ has endued with gifts and functions for the common advantage the apostle reckons among the δόματα given by him after his ascension to heaven.

III. Phrases in which to the verb δίδωμι, either standing alone or joined to cases, there is added:

4.διδόναιτίνικατάτάἔργα, τήνπρᾶξιν, to give one according to his works, to render to one the reward of his deeds: Revelation 2:23 ( Psalm 27:4 (Psalm 28:4>)); (cf. ἀποδώσειMatthew 16:27; Romans 2:6).

5. Hebraistically, δέδωκαἐνώπιονσουθύρανἀνεῳγμένην I have set before thee a door opened, i. e. have caused the door to be open to thee, Revelation 3:8. [ SYNONYMS:διδόναι, δωρεῖσθαι: διδόναι, to give in general, antithetic to λαμβάνειν; δωρεῖσθαι specific, to bestow, present; διδόναι might be used even of evils, but δωρεῖσθαι could be used of such things only ironically; see δόμα, at the end. Compare: ἀναδίδωμι, ἀποδίδωμι, ἀνταποδίδωμι, διαδιαδωμι, ἐκδίδωμι, ἐπιδίδωμιμεταδίδωμι, παραδίδωμιπροδίδωμι.]

On the forms of this verb, which was rapidly coming over into the -ω class, like other -μι verbs in the Hellenistic age—cf. MGr δίδω, δίνω or δώνω —see BS, p. 192, CR xv. pp. 37 f., 436, xviii. pp. 111 f., and the editor’s note on P Oxy VII. 1053.13. On ib. 1066.12 (iii/A.D.) ἔλεγέν μοι Ἀπόλλων ὅτι οὐδέν μοι ἔδωσεν, attention is drawn to ἔδωσεν as ";a rather early instance of the sigmatic form which is occasionally found in writers of the decadence.";